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were told a good story in connection with this district. It 

 was at the time of the Egyptian War. One old farmer said 

 to another, " So they've taken old Araby, and packed him 

 off to Ceylon?" "Taken Araby have they? AVhat a 

 shame ! Poor 'armless old gentleman, and did a lot of 

 good in the country, too." He thought his friend was 

 speaking of Lord Harrow^by. 



Mr. Frederick Townsend, of Honington, was a good 

 rider, and had at the same time two very good chesnut 

 horses which were first-class hunters. He afterwards for 

 several years represented South-West Warwickshire in the 

 Conservative interest. He also had, in later years, a very 

 good grey horse, which he sold to the Rev. C. P. Causton, 

 Rector of Stretton-on-Fosse — a capital sportsman ; also a 

 big brown horse called Buckskin, a capital hedger. He lent 

 him to Lord W. de Broke, and I had a day or tw^o on 

 him. When I got on him at the kennels the first time, I 

 said: "Is this horse quiet, and what do you call him?" 

 " He's very quiet," was the answer, " and us calls him 

 Freddy r " That'll do," I said ; " let his head go," and I 

 had a very comfortable ride. — W. R. Y. 



Captain Peach, of Idlicote (late of the Royal Horse 

 (luards), was a zealous supporter of the Warwickshire, and 

 the owner of a large stud of very fine weight-carrying 

 hunters. One of his brother ofiicers, who often stayed 

 with him, Mr. Clambier (the Bolter), was a very short- 

 sighted, hard rider. I remember his jumping into the 

 middle of an old woman's very small cabbage garden. He 

 nearly killed her, and was thrown with violence against the 

 wall of the cottage. On another occasion he jumped a 

 brook, which made a circle in a large field, rode straight 

 on, and jumped it back again into the same field. — C. M. 



Mr. Corbett Holland Corbett, of Admington, was a very 

 well-known figure in Warwickshire, where he hunted for 

 tliirty years, and no better or harder rider has been seen in 

 any country. He has broken nearly every bone in his body, 

 and some of them twice over. He kept a pack of harriers 

 with which he occasionally hunted a stag, and we shall, at 



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